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Prerequisites

There are two prerequisites that must be met to enable the UAMhmcConfig script and the asset management agent to run remote commands on the HMC:

• The "Enable/Disable remote command execution" option on the HMC must be enabled. You can check this by using the HMC system management environment and examining the settings under HMC Maintenance, System Configuration.
• SSH must be installed on the agent machine where the script is to be run.

  Note: SSH is supplied with the AIX operating system but not installed by default.

  Note: For Windows agents, the Plink (PuTTY Link) utility is installed with the agent, providing an SSH command line interface. See the Configuring Plink on a Windows Remote Agent Host section for details. The commands for configuring the Windows agent described later in this section may also work with any other SSH command tool that you might already have.